Linksys HPN200, User Manual

Page 1: ...HomeLink Series Phoneline10M Network Use this guide to install these Linksys products HPN200 HomeLink Phoneline 10M Network Card HPN200SK HomeLink Phoneline 10M Network In a Box User Guide...

Page 2: ...OR ITS PROD UCTS Linksys makes no warranty or representation expressed implied or statutory with respect to its products or the contents or use of this documentation and all accom panying software and...

Page 3: ...ring between your PCs Connect up to 30 PCs with up to 1000 feet of telephone cabling Data transfer rate is over 30 times faster than a 56K modem Compatible with Windows 95 98 ME NT 4 0 and 2000 Freque...

Page 4: ...ation Card One Installation CD ROM System Requirements PCI 2 2 compliant PC Windows 95 98 ME NT or 2000 CD ROM drive Phoneline 10M Network Card 3 Network Card Package Contents One HomeLink Phoneline 1...

Page 5: ...s are usually all master slots Older PCs may have both master and slave slots The HomeLink card must be inserted into a master slot Your PC ven dor can help you determine which slots are designed for...

Page 6: ...ks you to supply your original Windows 95 installa tion CD ROM or setup files enter the appropriate path for those files i e a d win95 c windows options cabs etc Linksys only provides two types of fil...

Page 7: ...le disk drives will appear Using your right mouse button click once on the drive that you want to make available to other users Click on Sharing followed by the Sharing tab Click on ShareAs In the Sha...

Page 8: ...or ME will automatically detect the presence of the Phoneline 10M Network Card in your computer 3 When the Add New HardwareWizard window appears insert the Phoneline 10M Network Card Driver CD into yo...

Page 9: ...on Files or Disks If you are asked for a file that includes HPN200 in its name If you receive a Version Conflict error 1 Click O OK K 2 Ensure that the D Dr ri iv ve er r D Di is sk k is in your PC s...

Page 10: ...it now If you see this message click the Yes button to install NT networking along with the HomeLink card s network driver and continue with step 1 on the next page If you don t see this message NT n...

Page 11: ...your CD ROM Drive letter Click the OK button Phoneline 10M Network Card 17 1 A message will appear that says Windows NT networking is not installed Install now Click the Yes button 2 The Network Setup...

Page 12: ...your CD ROM drive and insert your Windows NT CD ROM Type D i386 where D is the letter of your CD ROM and click the Continue button Phoneline 10M Network Card 19 6 A window will appear verifying that t...

Page 13: ...all of the PCs on the network If any of the names are miss ing refer to the Troubleshooting section in the back of this guide 10M Phoneline Network Card 21 Linksys HomeLink Series 20 12 If you use TCP...

Page 14: ...do this 1 Click on the Start button select Settings Control Panel and then double click on the Network icon 2 When the networking window appears click on the Adapters tab Click on the Add button 3 Whe...

Page 15: ...ed that you do so The Windows 2000 driver installation is complete If you want to share files or printers refer to your Windows 2000 documentation 25 Phoneline 10M Network Card Linksys HomeLink Series...

Page 16: ...Find then Computer and type the name of any other com puter in the window that comes up Click Find Now Make sure that you are using the same protocols and workgroup names on the 95 and 98 computers To...

Page 17: ...ndows 95 computers can t see Windows 98 computers enable NetBIOS on all the computers using Windows 95 and 98 IPX SPX compatible Protocol should be installed on all computers Bring up the properties o...

Page 18: ...location of the files type D where D is your CD ROM drive and click the OK button 3 Windows 95 will copy the appropriate network drivers to your computer If 95 asks you to supply your original Windows...

Page 19: ...t button select Settings Control Panel and then double click on the Network icon 2 Highlight the Linksys driver and choose to Remove it If asked to reboot your computer click the No button 3 Click on...

Page 20: ...etwork It prevents outside users from getting direct access to a server that has company data DNS The domain name system DNS is the way that Internet domain name are located and translated into Intern...

Page 21: ...erloaded traffic or failing lines and is much more flexible than static routing which uses a fixed forwarding path Firewall A firewall is a set of related programs located at a network gateway server...

Page 22: ...ic Internet Effectively a corporation uses a wide area network as a single large local area network A company no longer needs to lease its own lines for wide area communication but can securely use th...

Page 23: ...Non Condensing Storage Humidity 5 90 Non Condensing 41 Specifications Model Number HPN200 System PCI 2 2 compliant PC Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT or Windows 2000 Standards HomePNA 1 1...

Page 24: ...N REQUESTS CANNOT BE PROCESSED WITHOUT PROOF OF PURCHASE IN NO EVENT SHALL LINKSYS LIABILITY EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE PRODUCT FROM DIRECT INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDEN TAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RES...

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